English Ten period 6

1. Close Reading Questions. Be sure to answer the first ten questions from the Close reading questions that were posted online

English Period 6

1. Close Reading Questions Fahrenheit 451 Close Reading Questions F451

English Ten period 6

1. Finish Fahrenheit 451. Then complete two Reading Reaction Reaction sheets; one from pages 48-58; then from pages 59-68. There will be a reading quiz on Wednesday.

English Ten period 6

1. Now that you all have either your own book or a physical copy, the expectation is that you annotate the text. As you read or re-read, underline sentences that are engaging, poignant, meaningful or may Read up to page 35.
2.  If you were in class, finish your PLOT DIAGRAM
3. young men: one page reflection on Boys Talk. Do you think the event went well? Discuss your reactions, what happened, and how you felt about the event.

English Ten period 2

Select a passage from Fahrenheit 451 that you can especially visualize.  Then, using the white paper distributed in class,  first copy in neat handwriting the exact excerpt. Then, draw the scene so that your picture or image covers most of your own white paper.

English Ten Period 6

1. Passage Analysis #2 Fahrenheit 451  Identify the examples of simile; metaphor; personification; imagery; or repetition in sound from the following passage from Fahrenheit 451:

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      Without turning on the light he imagined how this room would look. His wife stretched on the bed, uncovered and cold, like a body displayed on the lid of a tomb, her eyes fixed to the ceiling by invisible threads of steel, immovable. And in her ears the little Sea-shells, the thimble radios tamped tight, and an electronic ocean of sound, of music and talk and music and talk coming in, coming in on the shore of her unsleeping mind.  The room was indeed empty. Every night the waves came in and bore her off on their great tides of sound, floating her, wide-eyed, toward morning.  There had been no night in the last two years that Mildred had not swum that sea, had not gladly gone down in it for the third time (pg. 12)  

      

        You should have at least 7 examples of devices. Then answer the following: Why does Bradbury use the comparisons that he does?  What does this passage reveal about Mildred? Her mind? Their marriage? 

  2. Read up to page 31 in the book(or page 15 in the PDF)

English Ten period 6

Carefully read/re-read Fahrenheit 451 up to at least page 14 in the online text.  You may go further if you desire. Be sure to complete your Literature Circle Role Sheet for your team.  If you were not here--still read, and still complete a role sheet!